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6 Homes and Gardens, Supplement of The Canadian Statesman, April 26, 1978 Cna àda': D ecoratigHty By Mary Aan Warkman the influence of the French hier new home in a letter to her, Canada's early settiers provinces from whence they mother in England: "Our didn't have a local decorating had corne. The local Indians parlour is warmed by a store to visit for a choice of also inspired the interior handsome Franklin stove with paint from a rack of chips; a decoration of the log houses brass gallery and fender. Our score of books from which to first built before the stone furniture consists of a brass- choose a walpaper design or ones which followed. The raîled sofa, which serves upon the advice of an expert on floors were painted orange occasion for a bed; Canadian interior decorating. They used and covered with home-made painted chairs; a stained pine their own ingenuity and the rag carpets with multi- table; green and white muslin memories of the lands of their coloured streaks or hooked curtains; and a handsome birth. rugs with original patterns Indian mat which covers the It ail started in 1608 when and subjects. floor. One side of the roomn is Champlain arrived at Quebec In 1833 Catharine Parr filled up with our books. Some building the first habitation on Traill, newly settled near large maps nearly conceal the the shores of the St. Lawrence. Peterborough in Upper rough walls, and form the The French brought with them Canada, wrote a description of decoration of our little dwelling. Our bed-chamber is ____________________________________furnished with equal simplicity. We do not, however, lack comfort in our MPM humble home; and though it is PATIOnot exactly such as we could P o wish, it is as good as, under existing circumstances, we ie could expect to obtain." Beaâmutufulek That' latter staternent of Pro<tieaI Fine seloction of Patio Doors m bReynods, URepla & other manufacturera Replace your old 72 EMpEREOE windows with7 H~UATDSFEY ssTwi n Lite Thernial ly 13,mAISPCESealed Units. Save on your fuel buils. CALI FOR A NO OBLIGATION APPRAISAL -Expert installation ... or instail yourself We also specia lize in " Mirrored Wellse Framed Mirrors " Showerlux Tub& Shower Encosures 13111's Oluss & Mirrors 9 Division St. S, Bowmanville 623-5187 Reproduction PINE FURINITURE Thne Shades BEDDING -LINEN -TOWELS 168 Church St. Bowmanvil le Telephone 623-6776 Mrs. TÉraill's is one which has been echoed over the years by many people. As people improve their lot, their homes gradually evolve fromn simple dwelliings to more pretentious houses. In the meantime though settlers made do and a rare survival of early practice can be seen in the Doctor's House, built ini 1845, at Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg, Ontario. The large bedroom has a stencilled floor which was done when home owners couldn't obtain the fashion- able woven floor coverings. The pine furniture so popular today was often painted to resemble other woods because owners hoped one day to rise above it. The more well-to-do were able to buy imported wallpaper and succumb to the decorating dictates of the day. Wallpaper was introduced to America by British and French importers by 1750. It originated, in China, about 200 B.C. with craftsmen hand- painting birds, flowers and plandscapes on rice paper. The paper.was in small, rectang-, -lar pieces measuring about. 12 x 18 inches. Any history of wallpaper since that time would begin in France in the latter part of the l6th Century. Louis XI is believed to have been the first European monarch to have placed an order for wallpaper. Wallpaper was known as "domino papers"' and they came to Europe via Persia. At a later date a European guild of printers hand-printed their papers from wood blocks. A Frenchman by the name of Jean Papillon was the first person to make wallpaper desighs in repeating patterns circa 1700. He is considered the inventor of wallpaper., During Louis XVI's reign, Christophe Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815) originated toile de Jouy (named after the factory in Jouy, France), a cotton toile of classic scenes executed in wines, blues and greens on a cream background. Toiles de Jouy are stiil manufactured today. Flock papers were also being made by the middle of the l8th Century. With this încreasing popularity in wallpaper came a decline in the use of tapestries as wallcoverings. Tapestries had been used to keep out the cold on castlè walls. In 1839, during the Victorian era, the roller-prînting machine was invented. In England, Gothic papers were designed by Pugin, Owen Jones and James Huntington ini the mid-l9th Century. A couple of names in today's wallpaper books are Gloria Vanderbilt and Diane Von Furstenburg. Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario was in its heyday in the 1850'.s- and during its restoration in 1967 wallpaper was duplicated at great expense. The most ex pensive paper to reproduce was originally the cheapest' type as, it was just ordmnary brown paper with patches of Prussian blue. Durmng Canada's Confeder- ation, Victorian housewives used sombre colours in decorating and dark hues such as mauve, taupe and brown. They also used items popular today - wicker furniture and a variety of potted grasses and pam.Antimacassars were dipaed on the backs of chairs and instead-of buying ready-made wallpapers, the thrifty decorator created stencilled patterns on walls and painted pic tures on velvet, sprinkled them with glitter and mounted them ini shadow boxes to hang on the wall.- When the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, B.C. in 1884 and the railroad linked the Atlantic and Pacific, settlers swarmed into the west with the promise of free land. Some remanants of thoe bygone days in the west can'ý-~- seen at Heritage Park in Calgary, Aberta where old There 's no better way to improve. the appearance-of your